failure quotes from influential philosophers, authors and people
"I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong."
191
"Don’t fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail."
244
"A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all."
382
"Love truth, but pardon error."
726
"For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than the increasing discovery of my own ignorance."
924
"Talent praise only reinforces the notion that success or failure rests on an inborn, unchangeable, static, and stagnant trait. Process praise applauds the effort and work - the action that's taken to get to the next step. You want to reinforce the idea that talent is unimportant, whereas effort is everything."
227
"Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough."
677
"There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure."
771
"If failure makes you stronger, you can never lose."
799
"Your mindset is the single most important factor in determining your success or failure."
804
"The only person responsible for your success or failure is you."
844
"Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt."
974